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Chip History Center
Chip History Center documenting the evolution of integrated circuits and semiconductor technology, with archived videos and documentation from the industry's formative decades.
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Public Institution
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United States
Australian Computer Museum Society
Australian Computer Museum Society, preserving and exhibiting significant Australian computing artifacts and documenting the history of computing in Australia.
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Public Institution
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Australia
Computer Cabinett Goettingen
Computermuseum der Fakultat Informatik (C-C-G) in Germany, a university computing museum preserving historic computer hardware and documentation.
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Public Institution
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Information, meeting, assembling
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Claus-Hartung-Eck 17
37083 Goettingen
GermanyMAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)
MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) project, an open-source emulator preserving decades of arcade game and computing hardware through software emulation.
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MAME's website "documents the hardware and software of arcade games" from the 1970s on (excerpted from the Charles Babbage Institute's website). MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with images of the original arcade game's ROM and disk data, MAME attempts to reproduce that game as faithfully as possible on a more modern general-purpose computer. MAME can currently emulate several thousand different classic arcade video games from the late 1970s through the modern era.... MAME is strictly a non-profit project. Its main purpose is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines. This is done both for educational purposes and for preservation purposes, in order to prevent many historical games from disappearing forever once the hardware they run on stops working... All of MAME's source code is either our own or freely available" (excerpted from MAME's website).
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United States
Tekniska Museet (Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology)
Tekniska Museet (National Museum of Science and Technology) in Stockholm, Sweden, with exhibits on computing, telecommunications, and Swedish technological innovation.
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Public Institution
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Museivägen 7
Stockholm
SwedenNational Museum of American History's (NMAH's) - Computer History Collection
Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Computer History collection, featuring landmark machines and artifacts from American computing history.
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The Division's Computer History Collection website is an archival resource not a service provider. THE ON SITE EXHIBIT HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN. "The Division of Information Technology and Communications dedicates its collections and scholarship to a broader understanding of information technologies and their role in American history. Staff of the division manage collections, conduct research, and produce publications and other educational products in the history of science, technology, and society related to all aspects of information technology and communications" (excerpted from NMAH's Division of Information Technology and Communications website).
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1400 Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20227
United StatesCharles Babbage Institute
Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, a research center dedicated to the history of information technology with extensive archives and oral histories.
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211 Andersen Library 222 - 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States